RUSSIAN AGITATOR
TROTSKY’S LATEST MOVE
DESIRE TO GO TO ENGLAND. REQUEST TO MR MACDONALD. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) CONSTANTINOPLE, June 9. Apparently regarding the British Labour Party’s success in the recent election as a favourable opportunity to leave Turkey, Trotsky, the Russian exile and agitator, has telegraphed to Mr Ramsay MacDonald as follows: “For urgent medical treatment and scientific work, I am asking the British Consul here for authority to go to England.” Trotsky sent his son to the Consul requesting a visa and mentioning the need for medical treatment, and the necessity for personal supervision of the publication in English of his biography.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 162, 10 June 1929, Page 7
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